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Not really sure that any extensions that I install are particularly "useful". However, here's a list of tools that I find especially useful that have to do with web browsing.

• Fiddler (now Fiddler4). Still a solid debugging proxy.
• PrivateInternetAccess or any other system-level VPN. Running it as a browser extension seems risky, even given the WebRTC issue with VPNs.
• On Chrome, the browser extension "Cookies", which enables reasonable cookie management when debugging.
• WGET and cURL

OK, I snuck an actual browser extension in there. But it really only enables what should be core functionality.

I read that Lollipop will include webview as part of the Google Play Services framework, which is Google's cloud-based framework that they have been moving more and more Android services to.

Unlike app store updates and normal Android system updates, Google Play Services works as a silent push update, so phone providers and manufacturers cannot block the update. I'd hazard a guess and say this may have something to do it.

Source: http://developer.telerik.com/f...

How much damage can one do with that? Seems easier to sneak up close and hide in a bush while cracking in to someones network using a laptop.

Yes, but your laptop, or your Android device as proxy, wouldn't have the convenient AR_DRONE_ID#### SSID attached to it, so the security idiots at FUD Networks wouldn't have any idea how to detect those.

Or if you don't want to pay for Reflector, you can use ILSpy (a free and open source .NET Decompiler), dotPeek (free, from the markers of Resharper), or JustDecompile (free, from Telerik).

PDC is not Microsoft's preeminent developer conference. Tech Ed 200X is. My understanding is that TE is Microsoft's biggest developer conference, and it's running next week, June 4-8 (or 3-8 if you registered for the pre-conference sessions.) Picture 10,0000+ geeks trying hard to make dinner conversation, cavernous convention halls, and (literally) dawn-to-dusk classes and sessions for six days. Quite an experience.

Conferences get cancelled all the time for all kinds of reasons: I was scheduled to go to Lynda.com's DX3 in Boston, and it got nixed a few weeks out, probably because of competition from FlashForward, MIX, and TechEd. Conferences can get nuked for any of a number of reasons: attendence, competing events, a sense of quiet. I'd rather they schedule developer conferences for when they're warranted, rather than trying to hype up whatever's finished according to a timetable.

In this case, we're in something of a quiet period: SQL Server 2005 and VS.NET 2005 have been released, ASP.NET 2.0 has been out for awhile, and everyone's waiting for the next big shoes to fall: the growth (or failure) of Silverlight, an ORM-ish technology called LINQ, and the next version of VS.NET, which will fold a lot of web dev/expression stuff into VS.NET. My guess is that "Orcas" will be an extremely significant release for MSFT, in that it will finally turn a wo rld class programming/DB interaction environment into a tool that advanced designers and Dreamweaver users will want to use.

All of that's a bit off, and so for now, a quiet conference schedule may represent some honesty from Redmond. Personally, among Microsft technologies, I'm currently most excited about some of the third-party stuff coming out. Check out the controls offered by Telerik, or even more gee-whiz cool, the just-released EntitySpaces 2007 ORM framework. Awesome tools. I think Mike & Co. just released this to production yesterday.

BTW, I will be at Tech Ed if anyone wants to meet over junk food and ice cream. As I have a bit of a background programming Actionscript, I'm interested particularly in seeing what Expression/Silverlight can do.

Maybe for people that make frameowrks, but people that are making asp.net controls that are enabled by ajax (Telerik and ComponentOne for example), people are already getting going with asp.net ajax. People who before were making their own ajax code and such are now adapting their contorls for the new asp.net ajax. This is NOT going to woo people over dojo and things like that. it's just going to enable asp.net developers to have a ajax framework that works like the other .net code they are used to writing.

True.

You can do very cool Ajax stuff in ASP.NET relatively easily with 3rd party controls from companies such as:

http://www.telerik.com/
http://www.componentart.com/

and others.

Inside M$ (MSN) their actually using http://www.telerik.com/ Rad Controls. They are pretty kewl, and they do offer the source to them, but its ASP.NET specific.

You can always get one here. And no, I'm not affiliated with them in any way, just found them when we discussed purchasing a component of this type or build one ourselves.

There are many Rich Textbox controls that support Mozilla as well as IE.
The one that I use is called RadEditor and is develloped by Telerik. It's got everything you want from a spellchecker to file uploads.